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Critics' Voices
MOVIES
DANGEROUS LIAISONS. What deadly games people play in this excellent
gloss on Christopher Hampton's play. John Malkovich and Glenn Close
are the decadent puppeteers of lust who realize, too late, that the
job comes with fatal strings attached.
January 23, 1989
WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. Strange people and
situations pile into a Madrid penthouse until the place looks like
the stateroom in A Night at the Opera. Carmen Maura is the put-upon
heroine in this glossy farce by Spain's naughty new auteur Pedro
Almodovar.
February 6, 1989
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. David Lean's 1962 biopic, starring Peter O'Toole
as adventurer T.E. Lawrence, was the first and finest epic of ideas.
Now the film has been lovingly restored to 217 minutes, every one of
them glorious. Military strategy was never so movie-compelling.
Sand was never so sexy.
February 13, 1989
TRUE BELIEVER. The ambiguities are as unsettling as a crack-house
mugger in this humdinger about a sleazy attorney who bends the system
to wreak justice. But the real drama is in the demonic intensity and
haunted eyes of James Woods, a criminally gifted actor who may be too
edgy to become a Hollywood star in this era of the Really Cute Guy.
March 6, 1989
HIGH HOPES. A dotty old woman fights to keep her home amid the crush
of gentrification. Working with a cast that has helped improvise its
roles, British director Mike Leigh creates a group portrait of
characters who live and breathe and squawk their wayward humanity on
the margins of Thatcher's England.
March 27, 1989
SCANDAL. It's all here: the loveless romances of Christine Keeler
with a Soviet spy, a Jamaican drug dealer and John Profumo, Secretary
of War in Harold Macmillan's Cabinet. This express tour through
Swinging London plays like News of the World headlines set to early
'60s rock 'n' roll.
May 8, 1989
HOW TO GET AHEAD IN ADVERTISING. While plotting a sales campaign for
a new pimple cream, a British ad exec develops a bizarre ailment: a
boil on the neck that has a mouth of its own and talks back with a
vengeance. With black humor and a weird, Kafkaesque sensibility,
director Bruce Robinson delivers a biting satire of Thatcherite
society.
June 5, 1989
DEAD POETS SOCIETY. Robin Williams is a Mr. Chips with a mission:
to inspire his '50s prep school students with reckless passion. Like
director Peter Weir, Williams is dead serious this time, donating his
celebrity to an imperfect but valuable adolescent drama.
June 26, 1989
SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE. Next question: Can a man and a woman be
lovers without having sex? In Steven Soderbergh's elegant, poignant,
very funny film, the answer matters less than the interplay of four
congenially tortured souls.
PARENTHOOD. Didn't Tolstoy say that each unhappy family is funny in
its own way? This brave and original movie, starring Jason Robards
as curmudgeonly Grandpa and Steve Martin as his No. 1 son, piles up
most of our worst parental nightmares in a single midsummer comedy.
It really shouldn't work, but it does.
QUEEN OF HEARTS. On a next-to-nothing budget, this criminally
pleasurable panorama depicts a teeming gallery of Italians in postwar
London. Funny, ambitious and a mite too long, Queen of Hearts laces
pearls on a shoestring.
October 9, 1989
CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS. In Woody Allen's acute meditation on the
Greed decade, bad men are rewarded for their crimes and nice guys
worry about committing misdemeanors. This is Allen in his funny-
serious mood, farcical and dour by turns, a showman of gentle
misanthropy.
November 6, 1989
MY LEFT FOOT. Christy Brown was a poor lad who battled cerebral
palsy to become a painter and author. Daniel Day-Lewis' triumph is
nearly as spectacular: to play Christy with a streak of fierce
black-Irish humor--and without a drop of TV-movie treacle.
November 13, 1989
THE BEAR. When it comes to technique, this wondrous movie is to
other nature films what Star Wars was to science fiction: a
redefinition of the state of the art. Even the most sophisticated
filmgoers will be enchanted by this ursine tale, told from a bear's
point of view.
NOVEMBER 13, 1989
HENRY V. Kenneth Branagh, 28, is the Olivier wanna-be of the '80s.
In this version, keenly faithful to the famous 1944 film, the actor-
director stakes his boldest claim yet to Lord Larry's title. The
elite cast--a veritable Burke's Peerage of British acting--makes it a
royal, enjoyable feast.
November 20, 1989
THE LITTLE MERMAID. You could wish upon a star and not conjure up a
more joyous animated movie than this graceful retelling of the Hans
Christian Andersen tale. In 82 minutes, it reclaims the movie house
as a dream palace and the big screen as a window into enchantment.
December 11, 1989